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SUBMITTER: van Barreveld M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5612865 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
van Barreveld M M Dijkgraaf M G W MGW Hulleman M M Boersma L V A LVA Delnoy P P H M PPHM Meine M M Tuinenburg A E AE Theuns D A M J DAMJ van der Voort P H PH Kimman G P GP Buskens E E Tijssen J P G JPG Bruinsma N N Verstraelen T E TE Zwinderman A H AH van Dessel P H F M PHFM Wilde A A M AAM
Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation 20171001 10
<h4>Background</h4>Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are widely used for the prevention of sudden cardiac death. At present, both clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of ICD therapy in primary prevention patients are topics of discussion, as only a minority of these patients will eventually receive appropriate ICD therapy.<h4>Methods/design</h4>The DO-IT Registry is a nationwide prospective cohort with a target enrolment of 1,500 primary prevention ICD patients with reduced left ...[more]